Part of The Student Room Group

  • Join over 1.2 million students every month
  • Accelerate your learning by 29%
  • Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month

Is America in Decline? - assessing America after September 11th

Extracts from this document...

Introduction

Is America in Decline? Continuing drop of American stock and a decline in the exchange rate of the dollar, America is now believed to be facing an economic recession. After the terrorist attack of the WTC last September, its stock prices have fluctuated widely, which exacerbated economic slump. Charles Krauthammer argues in his essay "America in Decline? What Nation Are These People Looking At?" that people including declinists are wrong in believing that America is in decline, backing up his arguments with statistics and references to particular events. ...read more.

Middle

How many American children and teenagers wish to have Play Station game sets or Sony audio sets? Even though America has higher productivity in some areas, some of their technological skills such as software systems or bio-genetic systems are far beyond that of Japan or Germany's. He also insists that was the US which took control of the water in the Persian Gulf and persuaded Iran to sue for peace in the Iran-Iraq war. He stated that "...even in the intractable Arab-Israeli dispute, all parties have their eyes turn to Washington.". ...read more.

Conclusion

Many people have extolled their successes highly by naming it an 'Asian Value'. However, for the last ten years, they have not shown much progress so far. Starting from Indonesia, those countries are now facing financial crises one by one. Krauthammer's arguments that America is not in decline are far too dogmatic to persuade readers. His arguments are overshadowed by his subjectivity. It has been proved by many politicians that Americans are now facing their first economic difficulties of the 21st century. Additionally, many people prognosticate the possibility of the second economic and political decline. To overcome this dangerous political situation, America should not exercise its power over other nations and should listen to other country's opinions and ideas. ...read more.

The above preview is unformatted text

This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in our AS and A Level International History, 1945-1991 section.

Found what you're looking for?

  • Start learning 29% faster today
  • 150,000+ documents available
  • Just £6.99 a month

or


Not the one? Search for your essay title...
  • Join over 1.2 million students every month
  • Accelerate your learning by 29%
  • Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month

See related essaysSee related essays

Related AS and A Level International History, 1945-1991 essays

  1. Khrushchev's Decline and Fall.

    One noteworthy development of 1959 was the extension of extra judicial methods of compulsion and punishment. In April 1956 the Soviet worker had been relieved of some of the direst penalties of the Stalin era: prosecutions for absenteeism were stopped; compulsory transfer of workers from one plant to another was ended; the prohibition of unauthorized change of job was repealed.

  2. American History.

    This helped US commerce for 2 years, since it allowed America to become the chief supplier of food the Europe. - But after the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 the Royal Navy tightened its control, a situation that worsened when Britain and France began blockading e/o trade to break the stalemate.

  1. The Not So Free.

    and walk in to the dark room to coordinate the counter attack they call Operation "Melt Down". Suddenly and from out of the blue a shocked voice came out of the dark room next door. Lights were flashing up in locations on a huge map on the wall, "Major, Generals

  2. Many peoples have contributed to the development of the United States of America, a ...

    Flourishing cities and a vigorous industrial order: this was the American future he envisioned. His strongly nationalist position gained the support of the elites in New York City and Philadelphia as well as broad-based support among the Yankees of New England.

  1. September 11th

    If any country with large oil fields could supply America with large amounts of oil, then the US could keep its petrol and diesel prices down. Should America invade Iraq, then the government placed in control of Iraq would naturally be under control of America in the same way Israel is, and so 'friendly' terms with the US would ensue.

  2. Retaliation for September 11: Not An Easy Choice

    Grenada. Panam�. Hait�. (And) Iraq," wrote reporter Howard Kurtz. Alternately, this point was like a double-edged sword for President Bush. As Kurtz affirms, "if there is a serious attack on countries such as Afghanistan, it's not going to be a video-game war like the Persian Gulf conflict a decade ago."

  1. Judaism's Modernization in America.

    America was experimenting with industry on a huge scale at the time the Eastern European Jews that arrived. Their social history combined with the American Industrial Age produced an extremely diverse and distinct American Jewry by the end of the intercontinental migration, which coincided with the start of the Great World War (World War I).

  2. Iraq and America

    Nuclear declaration The 12,000-page dossier, ordered by UN Security Council Resolution 1441, provided a account of Iraq's past and present weapons programme. The nuclear section, running to nearly 2,500 pages, deals with Iraq's nuclear weapons activities up until 1991 and a smaller section covers the period between 1991 and 2000.

  • Over 160,000 pieces
    of student written work
  • Annotated by
    experienced teachers
  • Ideas and feedback to
    improve your own work